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Cold Comfort | Extra 2 | Blowing in the Wind: Aleksandersens Update
Remember the Sámi family from episode six? The Aleksandersens face threats to their reindeer herding from both climate change and climate change solu…
6 years, 10 months ago
Cold Comfort | 13 | Try Harder
18 months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a littl…
7 years ago
Cold Comfort | 12 | Here Be Dragons
The Greenland ice sheet is basically a giant ice cube the size of Alaska. What happens when it melts? We spent five days camping out on the ice with …
7 years, 1 month ago
Cold Comfort | 11 | Life Is Too Hard Without Music
All across the Arctic, indigenous languages are on the decline. But in many communities, people are finding new ways to reclaim both language and cul…
7 years, 1 month ago
Cold Comfort | 10 | Nickel For Your Thoughts
Half of the Arctic is in Russia, and half of Russia is in the Arctic. Oil, minerals, pollution -- it's a web of complicated environmental stories tha…
7 years, 1 month ago
Cold Comfort | 9 | Who Asked You?
Russia has more land in the Arctic than any other nation. It's also a regime that does not tolerate dissent. What does this mean for residents of Mur…
7 years, 1 month ago
Cold Comfort | 8 | Oil and Water
What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, Al…
7 years, 2 months ago
Cold Comfort | 7 | Hello Central
If there's one thing everybody's heard about the Arctic, it's that sea ice is melting, and that's bad news. But what's less well-known is that some p…
7 years, 2 months ago
Cold Comfort | Extra 1 | Scenes From Svalbard
Take a trip through the Norwegian archipelago, meet workers in the tourism industry, and get a glimpse of some charismatic Arctic megafauna. Plus, Ne…
7 years, 2 months ago
Cold Comfort | 6 | The Things I Can See On the Mountains
After thousands of years of tradition, a shifting climate is forcing changes in the way Sámi families herd reindeer. But some climate solutions are a…
7 years, 2 months ago